The ultra-smooth, minimalist designs from Ventura are not just a cool digital watches you’ve seen, they’re also technically advanced. You’ll never wind this watch or replace a battery – it’s powered by the motion of your arm with their MGS micro generator system. The negative LCD face is also easy to read in any light.

The UR-202S features URWERK’s patented Revolving Satellite Complication with telescopic minutes hands. The Revolving Satellite Complication displays time using telescopic minutes hands operating through the middle of three orbiting and revolving hours satellites.The telescopic minutes hands precisely adjust their length to follow the three sectors marking the minutes: 0-14, 15-44, 45-60. Extended, they enable the UR-202S to display the time across a large, easy-to-read dial. Retracted, they allow for a very wearable and comfortably sized case.The UR-202S is the world’s first watch with the winding rate regulated by fluid dynamics With the UR-202, URWERK have taken the traditional idea of using air friction and refined it to control the rate of automatic winding.Movement: calibre UR 7.02; automatic winding with world’s first twin turbine regulation Functions: patented revolving satellite complication with integral telescopic minutes hands; moon phase indicator; day/night indicator.Dial: ARCAP P40. Carousel mirror polished by diamond cutter. SuperLumiNova treatment on hours and minutes markers.Indications: Dial featuring: hours and minutes; moon-phase indication; day/ night indicator.

If you haven’t heard enough about wearable technology with smart watches, activity wristbands, and intelligent glasses, there’s now a new wearable category. It is an activity tracker to attach to your pet’s collar. If it wasn’t enough to track your own activity, now you can see how often your pet is active, and then view trends of activity on the accompanying iOS app. The Petbit attaches to any collar, and can provide detailed statistics, while being waterproof, light weight, Bluetooth enabled, and offer one week of battery life.

The new Basis B1 Band is revamped with a smooth metallic design. It packs some of the most features in a smartwatch to date, including heart rate, movement, activity-adjusted calorie burn with proprietary (walking, jogging or biking), and even sweat output and skin temperature.

The Sony SmartBand + Core is a wearable wrist “life tracker” that counts steps and tracks activity (walking, cycling, driving, sleeping). Its Android companion app, dubbed Lifelog, also tracks the photos taken, songs listened to, and games played on a smartphone, and it quantifies the amount of socializing you do with your friends. The Life Bookmark button on the SmartBand instantly records “everything going on at that moment.”

The Wellograph is an e-paper smartwatch with a heart rate monitor, motion sensor and pedometer. It was created with visuals in mind and differentiates itself from other brands by displaying its measured data in graph form for quick interpretation. It’s set to run stand-alone, but has Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity for syncing to its app on iOS and Android. It’s also equipped with a sapphire crystal front panel, for increased scratch resistance and strength.

Garmin’s vívofit is a sporty tracker similar to the FitBit that monitors activity levels and learns to set personalized goals for you. It’s equipped with motion tracking, pedometer, and can be paired with a separate heart rate monitor. It touts a 1+ year battery life on a single charge, water resistance to 50m, and comes in five colors. Garmin’s elected to go its own route on connectivity, and the vívofit will have syncing to Garmin’s own fitness community, Garmin Connect.

The Jaybird Reign band is a waterproof display-less fitness wristband that tracks activity by type (walking, jogging, ball sports, biking, and swimming). It differentiates itself through its recommendation software.

It promises to learn and understand the wearer’s body and habits and to issue notifications when it detects that it’s time to work out. It also recommends the personalized daily amount of sleep the wearer should get for optimal performance the next day.

Polar has added another fitness tracker to its long line of products. The Polar V800 is first and foremost an activity monitor and GPS tracker to record speed, route, and location of a run. It comes with various coaching software to provide personalized feedback on things like recovery time, running improvement, training status, and a calorie counter, OwnCal, that Polar advertises as the most accurate calorie counter on the market. It’s waterproof to 30m and lasts between 14 hours of training to 30 days as just a watch on a single charge. Its companion app, Polar Flow, is compatible with iOS and Android.